Half a million Palestinians displaced in Gaza over past month

Half a million Palestinians displaced in Gaza over past month

Around 500,000 Palestinians have been displaced by Israeli forces in Gaza over the past month, according to the UN's Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA. Since relaunching its military assault in March, Israel has issued sweeping displacement orders across Gaza, pushing Palestinians into ever-smaller corners of the strip. It has also seized additional territory and incorporated it into so-called 'security zones'. Much of the territory is now a no-g…

The figure was released on Friday by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which recalls that the Palestinian enclave remains a "fragmented, dangerous and barely habitable" space.

Half a million newly displaced in Gaza as livable space shrinks under Israeli orders: UNRWA

‘Multiple displacement orders issued by the Israeli military leave Palestinians with less than a third of Gaza’s area to live in,’ says UN agency - Anadolu Ajansı

Some 25,000 Palestinians have been forcibly displaced from the Nur Shams and Tulkarem refugee camps because of the Israeli macro-operation over the West Bank (focused in the north), the local Media Committee has announced this Saturday, 90 days after the Israeli Army extended its activities to the Tulkarem camp.

UNRWA: Half a million new displaced people in Gaza in one month - Seven News The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced today, Friday, that nearly half a million people have been displaced again in the Gaza Strip over the past month, due to multiple evacuation orders issued by Israeli forces. The UN agency explained, in a statement published on its official platforms, that the recent displacement operatio…

Nearly 500,000 Palestinians were displaced in the Gaza Strip since the resumption of the Israeli attacks on March 18, a UN agency reported today